The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-04
WAR ON THE INDIANS.
The Noble Red Man to be Banished
from Savannah's Street Corners.

from Savannah's Street Corners.
| Civilization has steadily but surely
crowded the poor Indian out of its path
way and pushed him into corners more
remote and more remote, from whence
again he has been dr. We and at each drive
the corner to which he has been assigned
has been reduced III size until now it is
hard thing to find an Indian, unless the
| olfactory nerves are exceedingly sensitive.
Yamacraws, Chickasaws, Piutes, Pawnees,
Utes, Sioux, Apaches and even Diggers
have decreased in numbers until now the
whole United States army cannot lind one
of them, though it tramp over the whole
wild West, where rlmors OF hostile OUT
breaks can be picked off Of almost every
blade of prairie grass
There is one tribe, however, that hitherto
has not been molested The cigar store In
| dams, but their place has come to an end.
The paleface has shouldered his musket and
is on the Warmth, and in the carnage THAT
must follow the brave, the squaw and the
papoose all must fall But not alone the
Indian is the object OF City Marshal Wades
hostile design. On Wednesday night Levi
j. Gazan petitioned the City Council to stay
the death-dealing hand of the City Marshal
and permit the only nobleman who remains
in Savannah, since the departure OF Lord"
Paget to still survive. Mr.. Gazan said that
Iue Duc ne OdfDttIOAd, "uose ldiiililei ny
had been seen at the corner
of Bull and Bryan streets for fifteen
years, had been ordered into exile
and he prayed that the Due, the last of his
line, might not be banished after he had re-
manned at his post through wind and
weather for 10 these many years. City
Marshal Wade says that 80 these many
years" is all right, but 10 the poor Indian
must go. The cause of this war upon these
relics of this countrys former rulers is the
report that breaking out is contemplated
by them A piece was noticed breaking out
of one of them only yesterday and there is
danger that it may spread The Indian
agents are responsible for this. The reckless
way in which guns, tomahawks and Anarch-
lists bomb, done up like bunch of cigars
have been placed in their hands, have
given them an exaggerated idea of their
power. They think they are stronger than
two-for-fives that can be bought in the
stores and they never will know their mis-
take until they try to draw one. However
wrong they may be it is hard to get a
notion out of the head of the average
Indian.
There are other things that may be got
out, but they cling to notions tensciously,
and it is dangerous TO fool with the head of
an Indian when he has his tomahawk up
lifted The reason the Due de GarbaloZa
has to go is that ever since he has been here
he has been associating with these Indians,
and there is slight suspicion that he is the
lnstigator of the contemplated outbreak
1t has been noticed of late that
his garments seem to have worn out rs if a
long period of idleneSs had depleted his ex-
chequer, and it may be that he, with cur
ming worthy better cause, will incite the
Indians to murder, and sneak into
a clothing store during the excite
ment and revel in the possession
of new outfit. The suggestion was
made that probably if he was given another
coat the impending danger might be sverted,
but Marshall Wade says that the city is not
furnishing coats to worn-out aristocrats
this week, and rather than descend to ap-
peasing this old wretch, he will Stay him.
IL is fortunate, in view of the danger,
that there are so few of this tribe of In
dams here. If there were as many as
there are in New York, and they
should all break out at once, the rising sun
would light up a desolate scene. The City
Marshal says that if the Indians, and the
Due as well, are hanged eight feet above
the sidewalk, he would not object to their
remaining. but even the thought of the car
cass of an indian hanging eight feet above
the sidewalk on every corner is revolving.
Better far to kill them at once and bury
them decently than to leave them to hang
there through the hot summer months, to
greet the eye and nose of strangers and a
Spanish gentleman, too, hanging on one of
the corners of the principal thoroughfares.
The only hanging some Spaniards and In
dams do is around saloons, and they would
feel strangely out of place eight feet up in
the air. But fate and City Marshal Wade
have doomed them, and in a short while the
only thing remaining of the braves who
once roamed these forests and chased the
deer and the early settler will be the remem
brance that all that is mortal of Tomachichi
lies buried under the Gordon monument and
that Yamacraw is thriving.